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Originally Posted by maxhifi
RCA Canada was originally in Montreal, and then moved to Ontario. Back before NAFTA, Canada had locally made products in pretty much every category. The Canadian sets were often inspired by US sets, but there were also unique models, and some parts differences. For example, I have a 12" B&W new vista which is Japanese made by Sharp. My Canadian CTC 38 is full of Japanese made RCA branded tubes, and the picture tube was made in Canada. The cabinets are assembled with square drive Robertson screws (a tell take sign of a Canadian product). And the record changes are almost always Garrard or sometimes BSR. They never used the US built RCA changers.
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I agree with your statement that modern Korean, Japanese, etc.-made radio-phonographs or even three-way devices used Garrard or BSR record changers. (I knew someone years ago who had a very low opinion of BSR record changers.) Some years ago, I had a Zenith four-function (AM/FM stereo, cassette, phono, 8-track player) entertainment unit which had a BSR 3-speed record changer. The changer in mine did not play 16 RPM records, as by the time this system was made and marketed the old 16-RPM records had been obsolete for many years.
BTW, eight-track stereo tapes had been obsolete for decades as well by the time these Zenith systems came on the market; in fact, I don't think I used the 8T in mine more than a small handful of times, if that many, in the 17 years I owned the system. In fact, again, IIRC, I only owned one (!) eight-track tape in my entire life, even though I am old enough, at 65, to remember 8-track tapes (my former, now late, stepmother had an 8-track tape player in her 1972 Plymouth Duster automobile).